Verse 1
I loved the man beneath the wreckage,
The one the world forgot to see.
But loving you with everything I had
Couldn’t teach you how to breathe.
Every promise found its way back home,
Until the silence wore your name.
I reached for hands already slipping,
While addiction called your name.
Pre-Chorus
I couldn’t compete
With a hunger that never slept.
I couldn’t hold on
To someone you hadn’t found yet.
Chorus
I wasn’t losing you to another woman.
I wasn’t losing you to another dream.
I was losing you to a room inside your mind
Where love couldn’t follow.
I waited outside every locked door,
Praying hope would be enough.
But some roads only open
When a heart decides to trust.
Love couldn’t follow…
Only you could.
Verse 2
Prison built walls,
But addiction built the first ones.
Steel bars never frightened me,
It was the invisible cage that won.
I stopped asking where you were,
And started asking where you’d gone.
The man I knew was still inside you,
But he couldn’t find his way back home.
Bridge
I saw your soul
Long before you could.
I believed in tomorrow
Long after I should.
If love alone could heal a broken spirit,
You’d be standing here with me.
But healing isn’t something given.
It’s something only you can choose to be.
Final Chorus
I wasn’t losing you to another woman.
I wasn’t losing you to another dream.
I was losing you to a room inside your mind
Where love couldn’t follow.
So I’ll leave the light on in my memory,
Not because I’m waiting anymore,
But because I loved the man beneath the wreckage…
And I hope he finds the door.